Primary Data Collection Methods: Designing Questionnaires
- a set of questions and secure answers from respondents
- often analyzed by statistical methods
- consistency in questionnaires make cross-sectional analysis easy
Types of questions designed to measure variables in survey:
- Close-end questions
- Two-option aka dichotomous scales
- More than two options: Nominal-polychromous
- Ordinal-Polytomous scale
- Continuous or bounded types
- Open-end questions
- sentence completion
- open-ended questions with free text responses